Medications most often affecting the serotonin system that are used to treat depression
What is Antidepressant Medication
100
Former term for Bipolar Disorder
What is Manic Depression
100
Urges to perform certain actions; common compulsions involve cleaning, checking on something you doubt you did; repeating, arranging and counting
What is Compulsions
200
Medications such as lithium and anti-seizure drugs that treat Bipolar Disorder, often through neurotransmitter glutamate
What is Mood Stabilizers
200
A neurotransmitter involved in anxiety disorders
What is GABA
200
An unpleasant emotional state involving worry, apprehension, dread of some future event, preoccupation, and often a feeling of being unable to control or handle an event.
What is Anxiety
300
Medications used to treat schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms; often work on the dopamine system
What is Antipsychotic Medication
300
Oldest and best-known medication for Bipolar Disorder
What is Lithium
300
Intrusive, repetitive thoughts; common obsessions involve thoughts of being contaminated; thoughts about harming oneself or others;
What is Obsessions
400
A serious mental disorder involving disturbance in behavior, language, thinking and perception. Involves positive and negative symptoms, delusions, and hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia
400
A disorder involving feelings of sadness, worthless and hopeless as well as behavioral, cognitive and physical symptoms
What is Major Depression
400
Involves a nondirective and empathic therapist helping the client develop his or her own goals for growth and self-improvement
What is Humanistic Therapy
500
Symptoms that involve the patient not doing things he or she should be doing; not socializing, decrease in language, decrease in self-care
What is Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
500
Term for the different personalities that emerge in DID
What is Alter
500
A condition in which a person experiences irrational and uncontrollable anxiety that is disruptive to daily functioning.